What's the difference between gallop and trot?

Gallop


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move or run in the mode called a gallop; as a horse; to go at a gallop; to run or move with speed.
  • (v. i.) To ride a horse at a gallop.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: To go rapidly or carelessly, as in making a hasty examination.
  • (v. t.) To cause to gallop.
  • (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The sounds were loudest along the left sternal border, exhibited an increase in intensity during inspiration and were associated with right atrial gallop sounds and with murmurs of tricuspid regurgitation.
  • (2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (3) The maximum distance galloped daily, which was in period 4, was repeated in period 5.
  • (4) We contacted Tim and his advisers immediately when we heard he was not going to be part of Shanghai any longer,” Gallop said.
  • (5) A second example of a compromise of VA is that of a galloping racehorse at very high workloads.
  • (6) In the second half Gerrard found much more freedom, bombing forward with a familiar gallop and linking up more effectively with his team-mates.
  • (7) Patients who died suddenly and those survived were similar in respect to age (60, 62 years), sex, location of infarction, presence of coronary risk factors, severity of acute myocardial infarction (Q waves, cardiac enzymes), serum cholesterol levels, evidence of cardiomegaly on roentgenograms, presence of ventricular gallop and drug therapy received.
  • (8) Certainly it has the feeling of a circus act - riding two galloping horses in front of everyone.
  • (9) Chapter 1: imagine your hopes and dreams are a galloping stallion, wild and untamed.
  • (10) From where he stood, the Real Madrid coach watched in awe as barely metres away Gareth Bale started the sprint that ended with him scoring what he admitted was the "biggest" goal of his career: a 50-metre gallop that won the Copa del Rey for Real Madrid .
  • (11) Following an initial maintenance period without forced exercise, workload was increased in succeeding 18-d periods by doubling the distance the horses were galloped in each period from period 2 through 4.
  • (12) A fine period of passing is undone by a brainless gallop forwards by Kebe, who just knocks the ball into the nearest defender.
  • (13) The Argentinian raced on to a ball on the right of the area and chipped it inside, where Maicon came galloping in to bundle home at the second attempt.
  • (14) The timing interval between the onset of knee extensor EMG (vastus lateralis) and the onset of the ipsilateral elbow flexor EMG (brachialis) was studied in adult cats during overground walking, trotting and galloping.
  • (15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lakota youth riders of the “Horse Nation” gallop bareback at Standing Rock.
  • (16) The chief executive of Football Federation Australia, David Gallop, told local media it had been involved in interviews and the production of documents.
  • (17) Hence his eventual nickname, the Galloping Major, though like most such "army" footballers, he was seldom to be seen on parade.
  • (18) A protodiastolic gallop proved to be a relative specific but insensitive sign of poor ventricular function.
  • (19) 12.53pm GMT 8 min: With Manchester City attacking down the inside right, David Silva slides a lovely pass through to Pablo Zabaleta, who was galloping up the touchline on the overlap.
  • (20) In the London agencies where she worked in the 80s, overt sexism was rife, but Gallop says she didn’t notice “because that was the way things were.

Trot


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To proceed by a certain gait peculiar to quadrupeds; to ride or drive at a trot. See Trot, n.
  • (n.) Fig.: To run; to jog; to hurry.
  • (v. t.) To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering.
  • (v. i.) The pace of a horse or other quadruped, more rapid than a walk, but of various degrees of swiftness, in which one fore foot and the hind foot of the opposite side are lifted at the same time.
  • (v. i.) Fig.: A jogging pace, as of a person hurrying.
  • (v. i.) One who trots; a child; a woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) All horses underwent a gradually increasing exercise programme consisting of walking and trotting beginning one week after the first injection and continuing for 24 weeks.
  • (2) In the rotatory and transverse gallop (examples of the in-phase form of locomotion) the coupling is asymmetrical: on one side it is comparable to pacing (forelimb flexion precedes hindlimb extension), and on the other side to trotting (forelimb flexion follows extension).
  • (3) Simeone, despite having received his marching orders, trots up to accept his gong from Michel Platini.
  • (4) Taken together, these results are consistent with the notion that, in normal cat locomotion up to a medium trot, anterior thigh motoneurons are progressively recruited in an orderly fashion.
  • (5) For example, as a junior working in the neonatal intensive care unit at King’s College hospital in 2004, I worked seven 15-hour night shifts on the trot.
  • (6) They trot through the car park to the Merc and are on the motorway in minutes.
  • (7) The sea I could take or leave, but the trotting was amazing.
  • (8) The trotting category (Civettictis civetta, Ichneumia albicauda) is characterized by longer epipodials and metapodials and a more proximal position of muscle bellies.
  • (9) US network ABC has commissioned a new documentary-style series following Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear et al, and their everyday travails rather than the globe-trotting, song-and-dance adventures that have characterised their film outings.
  • (10) The timing interval between the onset of knee extensor EMG (vastus lateralis) and the onset of the ipsilateral elbow flexor EMG (brachialis) was studied in adult cats during overground walking, trotting and galloping.
  • (11) An attack on Syria or Iran or any other US "demon" would draw on a fashionable variant, "Responsibility to Protect", or R2P – whose lectern-trotting zealot is the former Australian foreign minister Gareth Evans , co-chair of a " global centre " based in New York.
  • (12) Evidence used to convict the trio included photographs of Greste’s parents; a song by the musician Gotye; footage of trotting horses; and a press conference in Kenya.
  • (13) The luteal activity in mares was studied in the Equine Research Station (ERS) and in trotting stables (TS) in South-Finland.
  • (14) Of all the excuses for doing nothing, the argument most often trotted out is that whatever contribution Britain, or even the whole EU, made to reducing carbon emissions would be more than offset by the rapid growth of coal-fired power stations in China.
  • (15) A brief blast of hot heat, but soon everyone's smiling as they trot back up the pitch.
  • (16) The new commissions come on top of a number of forthcoming dramas, including Dahl’s Esio Trot and an adaptation of JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy.
  • (17) Clinton, while trotting out her plan on college affordability , has been robust in her attacks on Republican candidates of late – speaking out against gaffes on women’s reproductive rights from Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio.
  • (18) The interlude lasted barely 10 seconds before the vixen trotted out and resumed her nocturnal warbling.
  • (19) Paul Ryan gave a speech as well, and it delivered hormone-injected red meat to a hungry crowd, but it didn't show anyone anything new: In fact, he has been trotting out pieces of it to the stump ever since he accepted the position.
  • (20) Interlimb co-ordination typical of swimming (or trotting) in adult quadrupedal vertebrates was already present on postnatal day 1, and so apparently the neural pattern generating circuitry for this behaviour is already established by this stage.